Nola.com broke this story last night, with RB Nigel Anderson of East St. John committing to Tulane. Anderson (6-0, 202) had offers from Arizona State, East Carolina, ULL and La Tech among others and will join former East St. John players Darion Monroe, Daren Williams and Leonard Davis at Tulane. He is rated the No. 50 RB in the country by Rivals.com. Of the players on the roster, only Darion Monroe (23), Edward Williams (27), Kenneth Santa Marina (34), Chris Taylor (38) and Rae Juan Marbley (43) were rated higher at their position when they signed with Tulane.

Anderson had 18 carries for 187 yards in a 50-19 win over South Lafourche last Friday, including an 85-yard TD run. He also rushed for 105 yards and the winning TD in a 15-14 victory over Scotlandville while also getting action at QB in that game due to an injury to the starter. East St. John is 2-2, but its losses came to the top-ranked team in Class 3A, John Curtis, and the top-ranked team in Class 5A, Rummel. Anderson had 62 yards on 15 carries in the 39-0 loss to Rummel, which has a stout defense.



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With Tulane off, this is a good weekend to sit in front of the television and watch what is easily the best weekend of college football so far. Whether the wife and kid actually let me do that is another story entirely, but here's my quick take on the biggest games.

1) LSU-Auburn

I like Auburn because LSU's defense is suspect against the run, but I will say this--no one has defended Gus Malzahn's spread option better than LSU's staff. LSU beat Auburn fairly comfortably last year and its only loss in recent years was to the unstoppable Cam Newton national champion. One other thing. While I agree with the consensus the SEC West is loaded like no division in recent memory, it's still conjecture at this point. The best non-conference wins from those seven teams are LSU over Wisconsin, Alabama over West Virginia and Auburn over Kansas State. They haven't played a truly elite team.

2) Mississippi State-Texas A&M

I like Mississippi State but I'm not sure whether either of these teams are legit West contenders despite their impressive starts. Texas A&M is better defensively but still mediocre and can't possibly be as good offensively without Johnny Football. The Aggies should have lost to Arkansas at home last Saturday. Mississippi State was very impressive at LSU, but that was a rare big skin for coach Dan Mullen. I've always been skeptical of his Bulldog teams, and this would be a good time for him to shut me up.

3) Ole Miss-Alabama

I like 'Bama but am not convinced about this one. Even though Ole Miss has been erratic offensively, I think the Rebels are better than Mississippi State and Texas A&M, with more speed on both sides of the ball. The Rebels D is nasty. Alabama put up awesome number against Florida but this will be a much better test for the new QB.

4) Notre Dame-Stanford

I'm glad I'm not doing an official pick 'em this week because all of these game are hard. I guess I like Notre Dame because of Golston at QB, but Stanford is more talented from top to bottom and has an outstanding D. I've always felt the Stanford coach was far too conservative, keeping teams in games that the Cardinal should beat easily, and when in doubt, I usually go with the more dynamic offense. That's Notre Dame, but I wouldn't be surprised if Stanford won like 24-9, either.

5) Oklahoma-TCU

If TCU is legitimately good, I think it shocks Oklahoma tomorrow. The Sooners survived a tough road game at West Virginia and now have another on, I think. It's hard to gauge TCU considering its levee of competition, but if the defense is back to what it was a few years ago, Oklahoma's offense will have issues.

6) Arizona-Oregon

I have a hunch the Wildcats will win, something like 31-24. Oregon has two tackles out with injuries and the lousy Pac-10 refs will find a way to hurt the Ducks even though its contrary to the conference's interests, giving RichRod his second consecutive win over the league's top program.

This isn't coming from CJ or Montana or any source.

It's coming from my eyes and common sense. While Tanner Lee sat out practice today with the shoulder injury he sustained against Rutgers (CJ would not reveal the extent of the injury, specifically saying he wants UConn to be uncertain what will happen), Montana took almost all of the reps with the first-team offense today while Devin Powell worked with the scout team.

Although CJ and QB coach Aaron Price were non-committal, CJ did say Montana graded out better than Powell against Rutgers in his one series at the end of the game and Price heaped praise on Montana for his improved arm strength since the start of spring practice.

Reading between the lines, which is pretty easy to do after observing practice, Montana will start if Lee is not ready, and I don't think Lee will be ready.

We're on the verge of cracking this list.



http://m.espn.go.com/ncf/story?storyId=11619393&sr

Read the sports info story on the front page for the details, but here's Tulane's 2015 baseball schedule.

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It's Taron Oliver, a 6-9, 250-pound center who is rated three stars by ESPN but has not been assigned any stars by Rivals.com yet. He plays AAU ball for Team Takeover in Maryland. One of his teammates, Franklin Howard, is a 4-star commit to Syracuse. Another, Justin Jenifer, is a 3-star commit to Cincinnati. South Florida offered all five starters scholarships more than a year ago.

EDIT Oliver played for three high schools. As a freshman he was at Bell Multicultural in Maryland before transferring to private school Montrose Christian for his sophomore year, then moving on to Riverdale Baptist as a junior. Rivals has him listed at Montverde Academy in Florida for his senior year, but that's wrong and I will try to get it corrected. His dad says he is back at Montrose Christian.

He averaged 13.4 points as a freshman. His dad says he averaged 9.5 points or so as a junior.

The fall signing period is from Nov. 12 to Nov. 19.

Here's an interesting link to a Washington Post story about his high-powered AAU coach.


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Brace yourselves for a 2-10 season, if we get lucky in a game. We will lose to UCF, Cincinnati, Houston & ECU. We may have a chance against UConn, Memphis & Temple, but don't hold your breath. TU is a poorly coached, listless, & uninspired football team that embarrasses itself and TU every time it takes the field. This coaching staff has done little to correct the mistakes and it is necessary to make some sweeping changes to this staff @ the end of the season. Special teams are a complete fiasco and need to be completely retooled @ season's end with scholarships being
pulled and certain people being sent on their way. CJ had better quit trying to be a nice guy and get tough on the coaches and especially players. Wonder what any future recruits think about TU @ this time? If this keeps up, in 2 years, Yulman will be too large.

I still believe in Tulane's potential to have a good year despite its 1-3 start, but here are a few concerns that have arisen this week other than the obvious nightmare in the kicking game:

1) Kansas rushed for 204 yards against Duke the week before Tulane gained 231 yards on the ground against the Blue Devils.

A lot of us are hanging our hat on Tulane's drastic offensive line improvement from last year. While there's no doubt the group is better, it's also clear that Duke stinks at stopping the run. Rutgers is very good against the run, having held Navy to 171 yards a few weeks after the Middies rolled through Ohio State for 370 yards on the ground. If there are no holes tomorrow, Tanner Lee will be in a lot of second-and-long situations, which isn't good. I love his ability and self-belief, but his confidence has to be shaken a little bit by what has happened the past few weeks.

2) On a related note, when I asked CJ about Lazedrick Thompson establishing himself as a big-time back against Duke, he was less than glowing in his response. Granted, coaches don't always give an honest answer, nor should they. They have to consider how the particular player reacts to getting a lot of love and respond accordingly, but here was CJ's entire response:

"I'm pretty confident with him as a player, but sometimes we get in these games where it's just not his game. He's a runner, he's a battering ram, he's the hold-the-clock, keep-the-possession fo the ball and bleed the clock, and sometimes we're playing from behind. I always felt he was one of those guys in the right situation. The Tulsa game everything was so open, it was Sherman's game. Each of those guys will have games. I just like what the running backs are doing. David's doing a great job with them."

That's right out of the Sean Payton spread-the-wealthy playbook when it comes to running backs, but I'm trying to figure out if there ever has been a game in history that did not call for a guy who could explode between the tackles with authority and run people over. Plus, Tulane was behind for almost the entire game Saturday and still used Thompson heavily. Seems to me he needs the ball at least 10 times every single game and probably more.

3) Darion Monroe was really, really good when he talked to us at the Tuesday luncheon. You can see most of his Q&A on the Nola.com website because Tammy posted it. In fact, if I were to draw up a model of the perfect student-athlete, Monroe would be that guy. He's a good player, he's smart, he gets it, he cares and he keeps everything in the right perspective. But when I asked him about Duke's 50-yard run on its opening drive when it inserted its wildcat QB, here's what he said:

"(The QB) made a good play. The play was where the guards pull and Nico was reading this guard and I was also reading the guard, if the guard pulls, we go to the guard and there was a hole that opened up on the backside and instead of going to the hole and following his back, he went to the backside and he found a hoel and it was open. He made a great play. But we all were where we were supposed to be, that was our guys."

I don't know. I saw three guys (Monroe, Marley and defensive end Tyler Gilbert) get suckered inside by a good play fake from a guy they had to know was probably going to keep the ball, the sole reason he was in the game. Monroe showed excellent effort to run him down to keep the play from going all the way, but good defenses should never give up that long a run on the opening possession if everyone is playing his assignment correctly, as Monroe asserted. This Tulane defense simply is not as stout as last year's.

4) Southeastern Louisiana lost to SE Missouri State last Saturday. Relying on comparative scores is unreliable because teams do not play the same way each week, and the Lions had to have some of their confidence taken away from them when Tulane absolutely stuffed their read option, but still. SE Missouri State had lost to Southern Illinois 50-23 a week earlier before driving the length of a field for a late TD to edge SLU 24-23. I knew the talk about SLU being the most talented team Tulane would face was hogwash, but it was easier to call that a good win before the Lions fell flat on their face against SE Missouri St. Using even sillier comparative scores, we could point out SLU beat McNeese State 41-7 last year and McNeese State nearly took Nebraska to OT earlier this year. There's a chance SLU is average this year, even at its own level.

If Tulane plays relatively mistake-free football tomorrow, we'll get a much better read on the Green Wave's status. I'm just not confident that will happen.

What are your thoughts? Are you confident? Concerned? Pessimistic?

As always, the point spreads are from VegasInsider.com, the home teams are listed first and the Tulane game counts double.

Rutgers (-12) Tulane
Connecticut (+6) Temple
South Carolina (--5) Missouri
Texas A&M (-9.5) Arkansas
Miami (-7) Duke
Ohio State (-17) Cincinnati
Ole Miss (-21) Memphis
Georgia (-17) Tennessee

Congrats to buck2481 for getting eight points a week when most of us got four. Also, a couple of you missed picking a game. Make sure you have eight picks each week.

buck2481 8
GretnaGreen 6
dew99 6
Wavetime 6
DrBox 5
Golfer81 5
MNAlum 4
WaveON 4
jjstock 2005 4
winwave 4
OUG 4
St. Amant Wave 4
p8kpev 4
captcrown1 4
Ressinge 3
LSU Law Greenie 3
Guerry Smith 3
Rcnut 3


OVERALL STANDINGS

Dew99 22

p8kpev 21

jjstock 2005 20
buck2481 20
Gretna Green 20
DrBox 20

captcrown1 16
Wavetime 16
Golfer81 16 (missed 1 week)

WaveOn 15

LSU Law Greenie 14
winwave 14

St. Amant Wave 13
Guerry Smith 13

MNAlum 11 (missed 1 week)

OUG 10

Ressinge 9 (missed 1 week)
ny oscar 9 (missed 1 week)

Rcnut 8

This one will be short because I got a call from my 4-year-old's school this morning that he was sick and had to be picked up. Couldn't find any relatives to take him on short notice, so he got a tour of Yulman Stadium during practice and was in my arms during the CJ interview. Special thanks to Carlos Wilson, who before leaving practice a few minutes early to go to class handed a football to my son and played "catch" with him for a minute, then let him keep the football for the rest of the practice. Wilson is a class guy.

It is amazing to me how many played have to to leave practice early for classes. CJ insists it is not an issue, and the players have said the same thing. Today, Ed Williams left about 20 minutes early for a test. So did Nick Montana, Tristan Cooper and Wilson, but at least that trio is not slated to play.

Look for a joint feature with the Rutgers site tomorrow with us answering about six questions apiece previewing the game with a prediction.

Here's the transcript of the interview Tammy and I had with CJ:

How was practice today and overall this week?

"I thought it was really good. We had another good week of practice. I really liked yesterday. On Tuesday I didn't think we hustled as much on the offensive line and different positions. Yesterday and today I thought we really hustled, we really played and practiced well, we caught the ball well. These freshmen are catching it well. (Terren) Encalade and Leondre (James) are doing a great job. Ed Williams had another good week of practice."

How much more comfortable do you feel now than you did when coached your first game here against Rutgers?

"I feel a lot more comfortable with what we are doing. That was the first game ever. I didn't know half the players' names back the, so this is a little bit different."

Last year you had a rough fourth game against Syracuse where a lot of self-inflicted errors distorted the score just like on Saturday against Duke. You then won four in a row. Are there some parallels there?

"Here's the difference with last year's team and this year's team. Last year's team was a little bit older and more mature. You had (Chris) Davenport and (Julius) Warmsley and guys that had been in the program. Even Jordan Sullen had been in the program for a long time. You had a bunch of guys that were in the program, so you had some strong leadership. One of our best leaders now, (Darion) Monroe, is a young kid, (Nico) Marley is a young kid. You have to say Tanner is a leader, he's the quarterback, very, very young kid, not only on the field but young kid as a player, so we have a bunch of young kids that are trying to do something major."

Charles Jones has not had a catch the past two games. What is happening with him?

"The last game wasn't his game. I thought he did outstanding blocking. He's one guy that you want to do play-action and do stuff like that, but when you fall behind and have one-tight personnel or no tight ends, it was just one of those games where it wasn't his call."

Does Rene Fleury have a minor injury?

"He had a little hamstring. He ran down on special teams and pulled a hamstring on the first kickoff, so he's probably out this one."

Can you experiment with tempo a little bit on offense and go faster?

"No, I thought it was good. I thought the tempo was great today. I don't want to give my game plan out, but I thought the tempo was really, really good. We had to run a couple of plays over because the defense wasn't set where we wanted, but the tempo has been good all week."

Your receivers have done a good job in packages getting on and off the field. Can you talk about that?

"They are playing well, especially these young kids are starting to understand their role. Encalade and Leondre James are really catching the ball well for us. They are doing a great job getting in and out and they are blocking very well, too, so I like what these young kids are doing."

Who are some Rutgers players to watch?

"Look, the two defensive ends for sure. Both of those guys, they are sack leaders. This No. 3 (linebacker Steve Longa) is an outstanding player. This little back is a pretty good player. The receivers are good. The quarterback is going to manage the game and he's very accurate. Defensively, if you look at the two defensive ends and the linebacker, they are a great team."

How did Tanner look?

"He looked good. He looked real good."

Special teams?

"Looked pretty good. We didn't miss a kick today. The operation was really good. Matt (Marfisi) snapped well. (Mike) Lizanich didn't snap with the team, but hopefully we can see if he can do something tomorrow. If not, then it will be Matt."

... wishing for a speedy and complete recovery

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August 16-17 - Jacksonville, FL
August 16-17 - Phoenix, AZ

These camps are ONLY for those players, who are serious about playing college basketball. All Camps are for Boys and Girls (separate events) and only rising 8th graders and older. The two-day camp format will be intense and players will be instructed by many of the top individual instructors in the country. Please visit our staff page for other coaches who will be running these events, all of which have coached at the Division I level.Some of the top players from each camp will be invited to our NCAA Invitational Events taking place during July of 2014. These events are Invitation only and feature many of the top college coaches in the country (we had over 200 last July).Instruction will be given by ONLY current and former college basketball coaches. Campers will perform drills and skill work that they would be doing if they were current college players.The Camp will include but not be limited to on court instruction (speed dribbling and full court moves off the dribble; half court and transition shooting; passing with a purpose; using and defending screens; ball screen actions; 3 on 3; controlled scrimmages); detailed discussion on how to put yourself in the best position to get recruited; nutrition and diet; academic evaluation and goals; and the various basketball opportunities at all collegiate levels.At the end of each Camp, every participant is given a detailed evaluation of what they do well and what they need to work on in order to reach their dreams of playing collegiately. We will then send these evaluations out to every college coach in the country. This can be a huge help to your recruiting.There will be games played during the event (the end of the day Saturday and Sunday) and college coaches as well as recruiting services will be invited to attend.Each Camp is Two Days long, hotels and meals are the responsibility of each camper. A player may decide to attend just one day; however we highly recommend attending both if possible.Every camper will receive an official Maximum Exposure Basketball T-Shirt.Camp cost is $165.00 per player (for both days) or $100.00 per player (if you just attend one day). An $85.00 deposit is required to reserve your spot. These camps will fill up extremely fast! Make sure to register now so you don't miss your chance to participate!
Sample Itinerary
Saturday
Noon Check in/Registration
1:00 PM Lecture "Putting yourself in the best position to be recruited"
1:30 PM On court development
2:15 PM Playing in the full court
3:00 PM Break / Q and A
3:15 PM Playing in the half court (2 on 2; 3 on 3)
4:15 PM Lecture "strength, conditioning and diet"
4:45 PM Controlled Scrimmage
6:00 PM Dismissal
Sunday
10:30 AM Registration and Instruction for one- day campers who didn't attend Saturday
11:00 AM Lecture "Opportunities in the various levels of basketball"
11:30 AM On court development
12:30 PM College basketball drills
1:30 PM Break/ Q and A
1:45 PM Lecture "How are you working out?"
2:15 PM On court development
2:45 PM Controlled scrimmages
4:00 PM Dismissal

To Register Online for Boys' Camps Click HERE!

To Register Online for Girls' Camps Click HERE!

To Register via Mail for Boys' Camps Click HERE!

To Register via Mail for Girls' Camps Click HERE!

If you have any questions please contact us: info@maximumexposurebasketball.com or 704-664-9845

We hope to see you this Summer!

Are you attending one of our Elite Summer Camps? Registration is open and these camps will fill up fast! Serious basketball players ONLY!

http://maximumexposurebasketball.com/Summer_Event_Information.html

Very Interesting article on USC's main website about a new
social platform/app called Rub Eyes.

Rub Eyes Link

GO KNIGHTS!!!





This post was edited on 3/3 3:36 PM by Prince of Knights

TheFotoLife.com
"Map your Life in Photos"

Hello Tulane Fans ,
My name is Brian and I just started my own social network called The FotoLife.com. It is a new revolutionary way to store, share and organize your photos online for personal or business use. You will never forget a memory or experience again. It brings many of the features you may already use on multiple sites to one location. It is an idea that a buddy and I came up with about 3 years ago and have been developing ever since. We have put a lot of time and work into this idea over the past few years and are looking to get users on the site now and get some feedback. It would be greatly appreciated if we could get the support from our fellow Tulane Fans by having you all sign up for the site at www.Thefotolife.com. It is completely free to try and would love for you and anyone you know to try it out. It is a one time sign up then you can use it whenever or however you want because it has so many different uses.
It's main purpose is an online digital photo album that allows you to store all your photos in one private secure location. It can be used for personal or business use. It is a great free way to promote your business to potential clients and open a store to sell your products or services. As a personal user, you can use it as a digital photo album for you to organize and share your memories with whomever you like. You can track all your travels, events and memories through photos on a map with the time and location of where the picture was taken so you never forget a memorable experience. You have complete control over who sees what you post. Through our privacy settings, a photo posted our site can be seen by everyone on the site or you can keep it to just yourself or you can share it between just a couple of your friends because the power is all yours. We also have a basic app that you can fid in apple stores. It is just a photo uploader and allows you to edit and post photos to your map. The site is much more than just a photo site or a virtual mall though and has an unlimited amount of features. It has a lot of similar uses to sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Ebay, Google Plus, Google Maps, Google Circles Groveshark, Weather Channel, Amazon, and so many more. Here is a list of a few of our most used features below that may help you or your company out:
- Create a Personal Profile (Similar to Facebook)
- Create a Business Profile
- Open a Store
- Post Photos on a Map based on Location of the Photo
- Write Blogs for your Business or have a Personal Journal for Yourself
- Write Testimonials and Reviews on Stores
- Rate Photos, Blogs, and Businesses on a Five Star Rating Scale
- Check Traffic
- Check Weather
- Listen to Music
- Personalize a RSS Feed (Allows you to follow all your most visited Websites in one News Feed)
- Create Events with a Time and Location and Invite Users to Come to the Event
- Search People, Places, and Events
- Group Friends into Groups that you Create (Allows Posts to be Shared only between the People you Choose)
- Privacy Settings (Allows you to Control who sees each and every Post you make)

Here is a short promotional video that may give you a little better idea of what the site can do with a few screen shots from the website itself so you can see how it looks:
http://vimeo.com/52970337

There are many more capabilities to TheFotoLife.com, but it is easier for you to just go check it out for yourself. So please help us out and go sign up for www.TheFotoLife.com and be sure to tell anyone you know to visit www.TheFotoLife.com as well! Also be sure to check out our app in apple stores today! Don't miss out on the next big thing that everyone is joining and Start Living TheFotoLife today! Please feel free to email me at brian.thefotolife@gmail.com with any questions or concerns and I will be more than happy to answer those for you.

Also please be sure to like our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/TheFotoLife
and follow our Twitter Page at https://twitter.com/thefotolife

Thank you for taking the time to read this,
Brian, CEO and Founder of TheFotoLife.com


P.S. If you do sign up and are having trouble understanding how to use it please be sure to check out this tutorial video that will explain how to use the site:http://vimeo.com/53351710



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Congratulations to Jstock2005, our 2013 Pick 'em champion!

JStock2005 and Wavetime, who were tied entering the bowls, had vastly different bowl performances. Since both of them get to drop a worst week of 3 points, JStock emerges as the winner.

As for the other people who entered every week, Rcnut drops a 1 from week 4, I drop my low of 2, WaveOn drops a 1, ny oscar drops a 1 and winwave drops a 1. No one else entered every week, with chigoyboy and LSU Law Greenie likely missing the bowl edition due to my tardiness in posting it.

I kept a spread sheet (OK, really a handwritten spread sheet) with the results each week but did my weekly updates by going to the previous week's posting and adding the most recent week in my head from that total, so I'm sure there were plenty of errors in those updates. For example, defending pick 'em champion winwave, who I had with 51 points entering the bowls, got four more points in the bowls and ends up with a total of 49 because I had the wrong total in that update. The final standings are completely accurate, or very close to it.

No one had a perfect week of 9 points at any time (Tulane game counted double), and no one scored 9 points in the week I had 10 games on the list. A few of us had zero-point weeks.

Jstock had only one week with fewer than 4 points, which proved to be the difference.


FINAL STANDINGS

1) Jstock2005 64

2) Rcnut 61

3) Wavetime 60

4) Guerry 58

5) WaveOn 56

6) Dr Box 53 (missed 2 weeks)

7) MNAlum 50

7) ny oscar 50

9) winwave 49

9) chigoyboy 49

9) p8kpev 49

12) LSU Law Greenie 47

13) OUG 46 (missed 4 weeks, could have challenged for first place)

14) pansdad 46 (missed 3 weeks)

15) Gretna Green 34 (missed 3 weeks)

Mr. Smith, you do a great job with Tulane football recruiting. I really like reading your columns. I have a couple of questions -

1. How many will we sign?
2. I know our latest commitment (Donnie Lewis) had contact with TCU and Baylor. I would suspect this would fit a lot of our recruits given the staff's ability to find talent. Can you ask this of all our recruits and post your findings. I think it would lay to rest the stars and under the radar labeling.
3. Who do we have to worry about losing?
4. Is Skinner in school and will the track kid from Curtis be joining the team in the spring?
5. Do we have any chance with any of the big name kids in the area?

Thank you

This post was edited on 12/4 1:58 PM by tjtlja

This post was edited on 12/6 11:40 AM by tjtlja

probably not that big an upset:

http://www.rantsports.com/ncaa-football/2013/11/05/5-possible-week-11-college-football-upsets/

You guys took us out of our game most of the day. I didn't think we played that great but I that was because of your defense. It really good. I hope we get a rematch with you guys for the ship. Luck the rest of the way.